Oprah gives away e-book readers


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Nov 19, 2000


Amazon.com launched it exclusive E-Books Store (www.amazon.com/e-books). By bringing together the strengths of Amazon.com, Microsoft and Audible.com, the new store hopes to make shopping for digital content easier than ever. The new store will feature content that has never before been available in print along with exclusive electronic book.

The store will offer e-books in Microsoft Reader format along with audio titles from Audilble, Inc. Some of the titles offered in the Amazon.com e-Books store that are not available in print include:

* In Fidelity by M.J. Rose (Pocket Books) * Star Trek: S.C.E #1: The Belly of the Beast by Dan Wesley Smith (Pocket Books) * Star Trek: S.C.E. #2: Fatal Error by Keith R.A. DeCandido (Pocket Books) * Snow: The Prologue to Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan (Simon & Schuster Trade) * Turtle Island Dreaming by Thompson Sayer Crockett (ipublish.com) * Up, Simba! 7 Days on Trial of an Anticandidate by David Foster Wallace (ipublish.com)

The store will feature more than a thousand e-book titles ranging from science fiction to business and investing to romance to health, mind, and body and more, the e-Books store lets customers download recent best-sellers or find their favourite traditional works. The store also features more than 30 free e-book titles available for download, providing customers a risk-free opportunity to experience e-books and test drive Microsoft Reader.

Five best-selling titles are making their e-book debut exclusively at Amazon.com. They are:

* Leading the Revolution (Harvard Business School Press) -- an Amazon.com Hot 100 title written by best-selling business strategist Gary Hamel * Secrets of Frank Herbert's Dune (ibooks) -- the highly-anticipated insider's guide to the upcoming television miniseries airing on the Sci-Fi channel * The GE Way Fieldbook: Jack Welch's Battle Plan for Corporate Revolution (McGraw-Hill) -- Amazon.com Hot 100 title that outlines Welsh's successful strategies while CEO at General Electric * The New American Standard Bible (Foundation Publications) -- considered the most literally accurate translation of the Bible in the English language * Worst-Case Scenario Handbook (Chronicle Books -- the quirky "how-to" guide that provides readers sound advice for those unexpected life-threatening situations

The Amazon.com e-Books store will also feature the latest in e-audiobook titles from audible.com, including two digital exclusives that are not available in conventional cassette tape or CD formats. They are:

* The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (Random House Audible) -- Alan Deutschman's in-depth portrait of the man who helped to found Apple Computer and then returned to lead the company to new success

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1.   Dec 15, 2000 1:41 PM
Super information! I was watching Oprah the day she gave away the readers. I was very envious!

-- posted by bartonz



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